Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Characteristic Atmospheric Radiative Heating Rate Profiles in Arctic Clouds as Observed at Barrow, Alaska
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractA 2-yr cloud microphysical property dataset derived from ground-based remote sensors at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement site near Barrow, Alaska, was used as input into a radiative transfer model to compute ... -
Using Lomb–Scargle Analysis to Derive Empirical Orthogonal Functions from Gappy Meteorological Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThe Lomb?Scargle discrete Fourier transform (LSDFT) is a well-known technique for analyzing time series. In this study, a solution for empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) based on irregularly sampled data is ... -
A Numerical Study of Aviation Turbulence Encountered on 13 February 2013 over the Yellow Sea between China and the Korean Peninsula
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractAt 0247 UTC 13 February 2013, a South Korean commercial aircraft encountered moderate-level clear-air turbulence at ~24 000 ft (~7.3 km) over the Yellow Sea (121.25°E, 38.55°N) en route from Incheon, South Korea, ... -
Use of Cool Roofs and Vegetation to Mitigate Urban Heat and Improve Human Thermal Stress in Melbourne, Australia
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThe ability of cool roofs and vegetation to reduce urban temperatures and improve human thermal stress during heat wave conditions is investigated for the city of Melbourne, Australia. The Weather Research and ... -
Relationships between Extreme Rain Rates and Convective Intensities from the Perspectives of TRMM and WSR-88D Radars
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractTRMM PR 2A25, version 7 (V7), retrievals of reflectivity Z and rainfall rate R are compared with WSR-88D dual-polarimetric S-band radar data for 28 radars over the southeastern United States after matching their ... -
Assessing Decision Timing and Seasonal Climate Forecast Needs of Winter Wheat Producers in the South-Central United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractAgricultural decision-making that adapts to climate variability is essential to global food security. Crop production can be severely impacted by drought, flood, and heat, as seen in recent years in parts of the ... -
Ocean–Atmosphere Feedback during Extreme Rainfall Events in Eastern Northeast Brazil
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThe coupled ocean?atmosphere?wave?sediment transport model and the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) atmospheric model were used to simulate extreme rainfall events from 10 to 25 June 2010 in eastern Northeast ... -
Application of the Generalized Gamma Model to Represent the Full Rain Drop Size Distribution Spectra
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)Abstract We report on measurements of drop size distributions (DSD) using collocated instruments (a Droplet Measurement Technologies, Inc., Meteorological Particle Spectrometer and a 2D-video disdrometer) from two locations ... -
Multisite Generalization of the SHArP Weather Generator
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractGeneralization of point-scale stochastic weather generators to simultaneously produce output at multiple sites provides more powerful support for hydrology and climate change impact studies. Generalization preserves ... -
The Occurrence and Properties of Long-Lived Liquid-Bearing Clouds over the Greenland Ice Sheet and Their Relationship to the North Atlantic Oscillation
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractStratiform liquid-bearing clouds (LBCs), defined herein as either pure liquid or mixed-phase clouds, have a large impact on the surface radiation budget across the Arctic. LBCs lasting at least 6 h are observed at ... -
Evaluation of Modeled Lake Breezes Using an Enhanced Observational Network in Southern Ontario: Case Studies
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractCanadian Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) numerical model output was compared with the meteorological data from an enhanced observational network to investigate the model?s ability to predict Lake Ontario lake ... -
Field Observations and Modeling of Surfzone Sensible Heat Flux
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractSurfzone sensible heat flux (HS,SZ) obtained through direct eddy-covariance estimates was measured at four different sandy beach sites along Monterey Bay, California. The HS,SZ source region is estimated from a ... -
Intercomparison of Surface Temperatures from AIRS, MERRA, and MERRA-2 with NOAA and GC-Net Weather Stations at Summit, Greenland
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThe surface skin and air temperatures reported by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder/Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AIRS/AMSU-A), the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA), and ... -
A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of 30-Day Heavy Snowfall Amounts in the Eastern United States, 1900–2016
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractHeavy 30-day snowfall amounts were evaluated to identify spatial and temporal characteristics east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States during the period 1900?2016. An extensive data assessment identified ... -
The Influence of a Lake-to-Lake Connection from Lake Huron on the Lake-Effect Snowfall in the Vicinity of Lake Ontario
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractLake-effect storms (LES) produce substantial snowfall in the vicinity of the downwind shores of the Great Lakes. These storms may take many forms; one type of LES event, lake to lake (L2L), occurs when LES ... -
High-Resolution Temperature Datasets in Portugal from a Geostatistical Approach: Variability and Extremes
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractClimate research in Portugal is often constrained by the lack of homogeneous, temporally and spatially consistent, and long-term climatic series. To overcome this limitation, the authors developed new high-resolution ... -
Lightning Prediction for Australia Using Multivariate Analyses of Large-Scale Atmospheric Variables
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractLightning is a natural hazard that can lead to the ignition of wildfires, disruption and damage to power and telecommunication infrastructures, human and livestock injuries and fatalities, and disruption to airport ... -
Estimation of Consistent Global Microwave Land Surface Emissivity from AMSR-E and AMSR2 Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractAccurate estimation of passive microwave land surface emissivity (LSE) is crucial for numerical weather prediction model data assimilation, for microwave retrievals of land precipitation and atmospheric profiles, ... -
Joint Synoptic and Cloud Variability over the Northeast Atlantic near the Azores
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractMarine boundary layer clouds are modified by processes at different spatial and temporal scales. To isolate the processes governing aerosol?cloud?precipitation interactions, multiday synoptic variability of the ... -
Climatology of Hail Frequency and Size in China, 1980–2015
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThe hail day climatology from 1961 to 2005 was previously studied based on hundreds of surface stations in China. Recently, both hail occurrence and maximum hail diameter (MHD) data from more than 2000 surface ...